N‑capable Agni‑IIʻPrimeʼ

test‑firedBalasore (Orissa): India successfully test-firedAgni-II Prime ballistic missile from Wheeler Is-land off the Orissa coast today.

The advanced nuclear-capable Agni-II has astrike range of around 3,000 km and is an ad-vancement over the existing Agni-II, which hasa strike range of 2,000 km. The first test of themissile had failed in December last year due tosome technical glitches.

The 'Prime' has same size of boosters whichare there in the existing missile but will have anextended range of 1,000 km.

Powered by solid fuel propellants, it also hasbetter navigational system and greater accura-cy in comparison to the Agni-II missile.

Newer technologies have also been incor-porated in the missile to make it lighter and theweapon system has also been provided withgreater thrust.

India has developed a number of variants ofthe Agni missile series under the Integrated Mis-sile Development Programme (IMDP) with dif-ferent striking ranges since the 80s.

It is also planning to carry out the first test fir-ing of the Agni-5 ballistic missile by the end ofthis year, the sources said.

Agni-5 will be able to strike targets in rangeof 5,000 km and will make India join theleague of select nations with such capabilities.

Miscreants defile statue of Kariappa

Madikeri: Miscreants have desecrated a statue of army hero late General K M Kariappahere.

The statue was found with a foowear in its lefthand, sending shockwaves through the townthat adores its hero.

The citizens protested and alleged police in-action in preventing the incident. They said thepolice should take immediate action and arrestthe culprits.

The police said the miscreants might havegone about doing their business late last night.

The statue, in the heart of the city, was in-stalled after the death of Kariappa in 2003.

Blast: ATS officergave money to

accusedMumbai: A police constable attached to Ma-harashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had sentRs 3,000 by money order in 2008 to an approver-turned-hostile accused, currently lodged in a cityjail for his alleged role in the 2006 Malegaonbomb blasts, an RTI query has revealed. Pg 2

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STRAY DOGSBITE 10 IN CITYCondition of one of injured children serious

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The menace of straydogs is back to haunt Banga-loreans. After a lull of about twomonths, stray dogs, suspected tobe rabid, bit and injured ten per-sons, including four children,in Peenya since last night.

The condition of one of the in-jured child is said to be serious.The boy, identified as ShivaSwamy, has been bitten in theface and legs. He is now beingtreated at Mallasandra Govern-ment Hospital. The incident oc-curred near his houseChokkasandra last night.

After the last night’s attack,two stray dogs continued their at-tack in the morning too, injuringnine persons, including threeschool-going children.

Bruhat Bangalore Mahana-gara Palike officials who rushedto the area caught the two dogsand shifted them to the govern-ment veterinary hospital nearby.

Area residents said the dogshave been on the rampage andthe authorities had not done

anything to contain the men-ace. “We have been complainingfor a long time, but nothing wasdone. Now that a serious incidenthas occurred, they have rushedhere. It could have easily beenprevented if they had taken pre-

ventive measures at the righttime. The area is swarming withthese dogs which make move-ment of vehicle-riders and pedes-trians dangerous,” they added.

Mayor Sharadamma toorushed to the hospital and spoke

to Shivaswamy’s parents.Area corporator Muniswamy

said, “One of the injured came tome in the morning. He had goneto a private hospital nearby, butthe doctors advised him to go toa government hospital. We sum-moned an ambulance and shift-ed him to the hospital. WithShivaswamy too we ensured thathe received proper medical care.”

He said, “The stray dog men-ace is high here as bars andrestaurants and butcheries throwthe waste meat out in the open.As specified by the BBMP, thewaste meat is supposed to beburied, but that is not being fol-lowed. The dogs which feed onthe meat have grown in num-bers.”

The BBMP has spent crores ofrupees to control the menace.“We have taken animal birthcontrol programme across thecity. But we just cannot cullthese stray animals as there is alaw against it. There is also pres-sure from pro-animal groups tostop us when we go to catchstray animals,” he added.

Australia may lift ban on uranium, India welcomes

Bangalore: India today wel-comed Australian Govern-ment's move towards reversingits ban on uranium exports toIndia.

"We welcome AustralianPrime Minister Julia Gillard'sproposal to seek a change inAustralia's Labour Party's poli-cies and sale of uranium to In-dia in recognition of our ener-gy needs for the impeccablerecord in non-proliferation andstrategic partnership betweentwo nations," External AffairsMinister SM Krishna told re-porters in Bangalore.

Krishna said India attachesgreat importance to its rela-tions with Australia which are

growing across the board. He also said energy was one

of the key areas of bilateral co-operation between India andAustralia.

Krishna's comments on thesidelines of the ongoing IndianOcean Rim Association for Re-gional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)here come in the wake of Gillardmaking a strong pitch for ura-nium sale to India.

Gillard has said she will urgethe party faithful at nextmonth's Labor national con-ference to reverse a ban on ura-nium exports to India and lift-ing the ban was another stepforward in Australia's relation-ship with India.

BSY leaves it to gods now

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Shimoga: Former chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa today said he would campaignfor the BJP official candidate in the Bel-lary Rural by-election if the deity tells himto do so.

Coming out after visiting the BettadaRanganathaswamy temple here, he said,“It is left to the Gods now. If my favouriteGod asks me to then I will campaign.”

Earlier, BJP by-poll candidate Gaadi Lin-gappa met and made a personal appealto the former chief minister to campaignfor him in the hotly contested election.

Lingappa travelled all the way from Bel-lary to meet Yeddyurappa. But the latterdid not give the BJP candidate any as-surance of personally campaigning, butsaid the party would ensure his victory.

Yeddyurappa, who came to his homeconstituency for a show of strength, saidyesterday that he would not be able to can-vass for the party candidate in the by-elec-tion due to some personal reasons. Butparty state president K S Eshwarappa hadhoped that the former chief ministerwould take personal interest in the elec-tion and allocate responsibilities to par-ty workers.

The election has assumed significance

with former minister and MLA from Bel-lary B Sriramulu contesting the electionas an independent. The mining baron haschallenged the ruling party to win the seatin his stronghold.

External affairs minister S M Krishna and other ministers pose at the the Indian OceanRim Association for Regional Cooperation in the city today.

Gangadhar Pujar

Petrol priceto be cut by

Rs 2 fromThursday?

New Delhi: There may finally begood news for all of us. After a na-tionwide outrage over the recentfuel price hike, oil marketing com-panies are set to reduce petrol pricesfrom Thursday.

The prices could be slashed by asmuch as Rs. 2 a litre.

State-run oil companies are meet-ing today to discuss a lowering ofpetrol prices to pass on the benefit ofa global trend of falling gasolineprices to the consumer.

The price cut effected today will bethe first since petrol was deregulat-ed in India last year. Prices have beenraised four times this year, the lasttwo price hikes coming within twomonths of each other. Petrol priceswent up by Rs. 3.14 in September andthen by Rs. 1.82 two weeks ago,causing much outrage among peo-ple and political parties.

Last week, RS Butola, the Chair-man of the state-owned Indian OilCorporation (IOC), India's largestfuel retailer, said the oil companieswould cut petrol prices by today, aslong as crude prices continued to fallglobally.

Butola had said that oil companieswere committed to passing on anybenefit from lower prices to con-sumers, even though they had al-ready incurred a loss of around Rs.2,500 crores on the sale of petrol thisyear.

Petrol was deregulated or freedfrom government control in June2010. This allows oil companies toraise or lower prices in keeping withglobal market dynamics.

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Cong: Itʼs time formid‑term polls

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bellary: Mid-term assembly electionsshould be declared as the state has beenfacing instability, said Congress statepresident G Parameshwara here thismorning.

Parmeshwara, who is here to campaignfor Congress candidate Ramprasad, said,“The people of the state are kept in thedark about political and other develop-ments. There is instability as there are dif-ferences within the ruling party and thegovernment.”

“It is a known fact now that there areseveral factions within the ruling party BJPand the government. This is leading toproblems in governance. Instead of con-tinuing with this state of flux, it is betterto go for elections,” he added.

He said that the Congress has been sta-ble and does not face any internal prob-lems.

He said BJP representatives have beenmaking irresponsible statements againstthe institution of Lokayukta. “Their state-ments make everyone believe that the gov-ernment and the ruling party are en-

couraging corruption. If at all the gov-ernment closes the institution of corrup-tion watchdog, then we have to take up se-rious agitation,” he added.

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The advanced nuclear-capable Agni-IIPrime missile takes off from Sriharikota

test range near Balasore today. The missile has a strike range of

around 3,000 km

External affairs minister S M Krishna addresses the

media during the IndianOcean Rim Association for

Regional Cooperation inthe city today.

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TRAIN SCHEDULE

MADHUVE MANE (U)Ganesh, Avinash, Shraddha AryaAdarsha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Balaji (Tavarekere) (10 am, 1,5, 8 pm) Eshwari (11.15 am, 2.30,6.15, 9.15 pm) Cinepolis (3.55 pm,5.40, 7.20, 9.20 pm) Fame (Lido)(10.25 am, 3.35 pm) Fame (White-field) (3.45 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (12 pm, 7.15 pm)Gopalan (Mysore Road) (10.15 am,1.15, 3.50 pm) Gopalan (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (1 pm, 3.45 pm) Goverd-han (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm) HMTCinemas (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (7.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(1.30 pm, 4 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(12.50 pm, 6.20 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.45 am, 7, 9.35pm) Kapali (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Maruthi (11 am, 2.30, 6,9.30 pm) Navrang (10.15 am, 1.15,4.15, 7.15 pm) Prasanna (10.15 am)

BODYGUARD (U)Daisy Shah, Jaggesh, Spoorthi Cinepolis (1.10 pm, 6.35 pm)Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)

(12.15 pm, 7 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(1.15 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.10 am,6.45 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.10am, 3.45, 6.25 pm) Nandini (11 am,2, 5, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am,2.40, 7.20 pm) Rajarajeshwari (Mal-lathahalli) (1.30 pm, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30pm) Srinivasa (Gowdanapalya) (11am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Siddhesh-wara (11.00 am,2.30 pm) Triveni(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Veeresh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Venkateshwara (Avalahalli)(11.15 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm)

KAANCHAANA (U) Ragini Dwivedi, Diganth Anupama (10.30, 1.30, 4.30, 7.10pm) Siddhalingeshwara (11, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Vinayaka (MysoreRoad) (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm)

NAANALLA (U/A)Tarun, Shubha Poonja, AnanthNag, Rangayana Raghu, RameshBhat Savitha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm)

IN TIME (U/A) Justin Timberlake, AmandaSeyfriedCinemax (2.15 pm, 7.30 pm) Cinepo-lis (10 am, 2, 7.10, 10 pm) Fame(Lido) (3.20 pm, 7.45 pm) Gopalan(Bannerghatta Road) (12 pm, 6, 8pm) Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(5, 10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(2.40 pm, 9.30 pm) Inox

(Malleswaram) (2.55 pm, 10 pm)PVR Cinemas (10.30 am, 3, 7.35pm)

TOWER HEIST (A) Cinemax (1.15 pm, 10 pm) Cinepolis(12.10 pm, 5.15 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.10 pm, 5.35, 10 pm) Fame (White-field) (10.15 am, 3.30, 5.40, 7.50,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 2 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (10.30 am, 6.50 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (4.25 pm, 9.45 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10.05 am,4.55 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (12.55pm, 7.55 pm)

THE RUM DIARY (U/A) Johnny Depp, Aaron EckhartInox (Magrath Road) (10.15 am,1.30, 4.45, 8 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(10 am, 9.45 pm)

DOLPHIN TALE (U)Cinemax (10 am, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas(10.20 am, 2.55, 7.25 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

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MILEY NAA MILEY HUM (U/A)Kangna Ranaut, Kabir BediApsara (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Bhu-mika (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Cinemax (3.30 pm) Cinepolis(1 pm, 10 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 5.15 pm)Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(10 am, 3 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.40pm)

RA.ONE (U/A) Shah Rukh Khan, KareenaKapoor ‘3D’ Abhinay (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Anand (10am, 1, 4, 7 pm) Cinepolis (10 am,11, 1, 4, 7, 10 pm) Cinemax (10 am,1, 4, 7, 10 pm) Everest (11.30 am,2.30, 6.15, 9.30 pm) Fame (Lido)(11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45, 9 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45,9 pm) Gopalan (BannerghattaRoad) (10 am, 1, 10 pm) Gopalan(Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (10 am,9.40 pm) HMT Cinemas (4 pm, 7,

9.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(11.15 am, 2.30, 5.45, 9 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (11.15 am, 2.30,5.45, 9 pm) Lakshmi (BTM Layout)(10 am, 11.15, 5.15, 8.30 pm) Lak-shmi (Gottigere) (10 am, 1, 5, 8pm) Lakshmi (Taverekere) (10 am,1, 5, 8 pm) PVR Cinemas (10.20am, 3.40, 9 pm) Rex (10.15 am,1.10, 4.05, 7, 9.50 pm) Vaibhav(Sanjay Nagar) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6,9.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30 am) VisionCinemas (10 am, 1, 7, 9.45 pm) Ur-vasi (10.45 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm)Fame (Lido) (10.05 am) Fame(Whitefield) (10.15 am, 10.55, 12.25,1.30, 2.25, 4.45, 5.40, 8, 8.55 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10 am, 7, 9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.25 am, 12.40, 3.45, 9 pm) Inox(JP Nagar) (10.15 am, 12.55, 2.30,5.45, 9 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.15 am, 1.30, 4.45, 8 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (12.55 pm, 5, 6.40pm) PVR Cinemas (1.20 pm, 2,3.25, 4.40, 5.20, 8. 8.40, 8.50 pm)

HINDI

TAMIL

7AUM ARIVU (U/A) Suriya, Shruthi HassanAjantha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Amruth (10.30 am, 2, 5, 8 pm)Cinemax (12 pm, 3.15, 6.30, 9.45pm) Cinepolis (10.10 am, 1.10, 2.15,4.10, 7.10, 10 pm) Fame (Lido) (10.45am, 2.05, 5.25, 8.45 pm) Fame(Whitefield) (10.15 am, 1.40, 5.05,8.30 pm) Gopalan (BannerghattaRoad) (4 pm, 7, 10 pm) Gopalan(Mysore Road) (1 pm, 4, 6.45, 10pm) Gopalan (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(10.10 am, 6.30, 10 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (1.40 pm, 5.05, 8.30 pm) Inox(JP Nagar) (10.15 am, 1.40, 5.05,8.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10.45am, 2.05, 5.25, 8.45 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.30 am, 1.55, 5.20,8.45 pm) Maheshwari (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Pushpanjali(BN Pura) (6, 9pm) Pallavi (10 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) PVR Cinemas(10.40 am, 10.45, 2, 5.20, 5.30,

8.40, 8.45 pm) Sampige (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Vinayaka (SultanPalya) (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm)

VELAYUDHAM (U/A)Vijay, Genelia, HansikaCinepolis (10 am, 4.10, 9.40 pm)Fame (Lido) (6.20 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (3.30 pm) Lavanya(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Ma-hadeshwara (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm) Natraj (10.30 am, 1.30,4.45, 7.45 pm) Prithvi (11 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Poornima (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Pushpanjali(BN Pura) (11 am, 2.30 pm) Push-panjali (Sultanpalya) (10.45 am,2.15, 6, 9.15 pm) PVR Cinemas (2pm, 3.40, 9 pm) Srinivasa (SG Palya)(10 am, 1, 5, 8 pm) Vaibhavi (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Vijay (11.15am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Vision Cin-emas (10 am, 1, 4, 7 pm)

LOOT (U/A)Hansika Motwani, Govinda, Mahaakashay Chakroborty

Cinemax (11 am, 5.45 pm) Cinepolis(11 am, 3.20, 7.10 pm) Fame (Lido)(1.10 pm, 9.30 pm) Fame (White-field) (10 am, 9.50 pm) Gopalan(Bannerghatta Road) (4 pm) Inox

(Jayanagar) (9.50 pm) Inox (JP Na-gar) (9.50 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.15 am, 3.45, 9.15 pm) PVR Cin-emas (10.15 am, 1.20, 6.45 pm)Vision Cinemas (4 pm, 9.45 pm)

Members of the Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Federation protest in front of TownHall in Bangalore today. They demanded immediate release of the arrears allocated by

the central government, fixing of pension amount and better ingredients for food beingprepared at schools for angandwadi studnents.

ʻRelease arrearsʼ National agri‑fair begins tomorrow

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The University ofAgricultural Sciences is gettingready for the national agriculturalfair beginning tomorrow. Morethan 10 lakh people are expectedto visit and take part in the fairthat will conclude on November20.

Companies from across thecountry and world will bring inadvanced farm equipment atthe fair. Also, the fair will hosta number of session on scientificform of agriculture.

Briefing the media about thepreparations, UAS vice-chan-cellor Dr K Narayana Gowda saidthe fair is being organised tohelp farmers from across thestate.

The fair will be inauguratedby chief minister D V SadanandaGowda, while the concludingceremony will be attended bygovernor H R Bhardwaj.

The fair this year will also at-tract 2,500 farmers from outsidethe state. The latest varieties ofcrops and processes, methodssuitable for different crops, han-dling water resources, growingpaddy in semi-irrigated landsand other methods will be in-troduced to farmers visiting thefair, Gowda said.

More than 600 stalls will giveinformation on equipment microand small farmers can use. Thehand-driver cart-like contraptionthat can remove weed, de-huskpeanut and oil seeds will alsobe introduced to farmers at thefair, he said.

236 farmers will be presentedwith district and taluk-level, MariGowda and Dwarkishnathawards.

Accommodation has been or-ganised for the visiting farmersat the university campus hosteland old student associationbuildings. Vehicles have also

been arranged to ferry visitorsfrom the Yelahanka main road.

For the first time, eight na-tionalised banks too are puttingup stalls and will give informa-tion on loans and processes in-volved in sourcing farm equip-ment. The university is spendingRs 45 lakh for the fair. “If youtake the transport and other fa-cilities too for the farmers comingin from within and outside thestate it could run into few crores,”he said.

Asked about different varietiesof crops developed at the UASnot reaching the farmers in time,Narayana Gowda said that theuniversity is not responsible forreaching or marketing these crop

varieties. After development, thecrop is handed over to the gov-ernment. From then on, the hor-ticulture and seed manufacturingdepartments of the state gov-ernment have to reach them tofarmers.

He said the UAS in associationwith the energy ministry has setup a bio-gas plant on the uni-versity campus. Nearly 75 percentof vegetable and animals wastesproduced on the campus is beingfed to the plant which can pro-duce 300-400 units of power.This environmentally-friendlypower production plant will bededicated to the people duringthe inauguration of the fair to-morrow, he added.

HARISH AND TEAMHEAD TO ISRAEL NOW

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Just days after a controversialtrip by mayor Sharadamma to the UnitedStates, her deputy S Harish is leading ateam to Israel.

The tour also comes at a time whenthe Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palikeis facing charges of a scandal runninginto thousands of crores. The allegationis that funds have been released for civilworks in three assembly constituencieswithout following norms. In many cases,the palike has paid money for unfinishedworks, paid twice for the same worksand has also not monitored works thatare said to be of poor quality.

Sharadamma returned only three daysago, while the 14-member team led byHarish and ruling party leader B R Nan-jundappa left for Israel yesterday. Jayana-gar MLA B N Vijaykumar is also part ofthe team that has gone with the team.Others in the team are: JD(S) leader Pad-manabha Reddy, former mayor S KNataraj, health standing committee chair-man K N Geetha, memebrs Dr Raju,Katte Sathyanarayana, works standingcommittee chairman G H Ramachandra,executive engineer Parameshwaraiah,assistant engineer Hemalatha and someofficers.

The delegation will take part in a two-day conference on solid waste manage-ment and the palike team has been invitedby a private company What Tech. Thecompany has proposed to convert wasteinto manure and energy if it is deliveredto its units on the outskirts of the city.

But the problem is many palike teamshave toured many places within and out-side the country to learn management ofsolid waste, but with hardly any results,palike officers confess.

In 2005 too, a palike delegation, ledby solid waste management assistant en-gineer Hikkeri and executive engineerAnanthaswamy, had toured the US. In2009, chief engineer Satish too had goneabroad for the same purpose.

Only last year, former mayor S KNataraj, corporators Katte Sathya-narayana, Nanjundappa and Padman-abha Reddy were part of a 10-memberteam that had gone to Mumbai.

Though these teams have claimed that the tours are to study managementof solid waste and to implement new technologies here, no progress hasbeen made.

Solid waste management centres atMavallipura, Mandur and Chinnasandracontinue with same methods to deal withwaste.

Craftstraining

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: KPJ Crafts TrainingCentre, sponsored by CanaraBank, has organised a free train-ing programme for unemployedyouth. The 18-month programmewill provide training in sculptingwith wood, metal and stone.

Those who have passed sev-enth standard and in the agegroup of 18-35 can take part inthe training programme. All thefacilities will be provided free tothe trainees. Preference will begiven to students who are fromrural and poor economic back-grounds, a press statement said.Special training will also be pro-vided in painting.

Those interested can take partin the direct interview on No-vember 26. Contact: Director, KPJPrabhu Crafts Training Centre,Jogaradoddi, Bidadi IndustrialCentre, Bidadi or call: 27287127.

Health campBangalore: The NaturopathyCentre has organised a free na-ture therapy camp. Those suf-fering from shoulder, back, kneepains, muscle pull or asthmacan take part in the camp, stateda press release.

For more information, contact:No. 106, 1st cross, 13th mainroad, Nagendra Block. Call:9449372761.

Pak commerce secy: Nolimit for Indo‑Pak trade

New Delhi: The Most FavouredNation status, granted by Pak-istan to India, will be formalisedby the end of January.

Pakistan's Commerce Secre-tary Zafar Mahmood, ahead ofDay two of talks with India, saidthe process has been endorsedby the Pakistani Cabinet.

Mehmood said Pakistan islooking forward to increase traderelations with India.

Mahmood said, "The Pakistancabinet has endorsed the MFNprocess and has given us the

mandate to go and normalisetrade, so i think we are very op-timistic and today, and the Indiancommerce ministry has also ex-pressed their confidence in theprocess.'

He said that it is just a matterof months before the fears ofPakistan stakeholders can be al-layed, following which completenormalisation in trade can takeplace.

"we expect the process of interaction with Pakistan stakeholders to allay fears to

be done by end January. It is only a matter of months beforecomplete normalisation takesplace and all fears are allayed,"he said.

On being asked the limit oftrade between India and Pakistanif the situation is normalised,Mahmood said that the sky isthe limit.

"I think sky is limit. Peoplesay there is a limit to trade, butif traders feel it is condusive tothem, then there will be noboundaries," Mahmood said.

Eye campfor diabeticsBangalore: Surana Nethralayasituated in Jayanagar 4th T blockhas organised a free eye checkupcamp for diabetics on November19. Interested can register theirnames. For more information,contact: 22442356 or 9980753151.

Lecture Bangalore: The Bangalore Sci-ence Centre has organised a lec-ture on “Collecting rainwaternear coasts” at National Collegeon November 23. Agriculture sci-entist P R Krishna Prasad willgive the lecture and interestedcan take part, a press releasefrom the centre states.

S Radhakrishna

Nutritious variety ofpaddy developedBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The University ofAgricultural Sciences has de-veloped a new variety of paddythat has nutritional valueequivalent to wheat.

The university has workedfor more than six years to de-velop the crop. ResearcherShailaja Hittalamani said thatit would take another two yearsto introduce the crop.

“Our experiment has been

successful. It will now begrown in the fields of someselect farmers for another sixmonths,” she said.

Normally, protein contentin wheat is around 14 percent,while rice has around 8 per-cent. But the new rice varietyhas protein content of 14-15percent, she added.

The central biotechnologydepartment has released Rs92 lakh to develop the cropvariety, she said.

CITYTuesday, November 15, 2011 3CITY EVENTS

GeneralBhoomi Pooja of new campusof KID: By chief minister D VSadananda Gowda, Old TBSanatorium campus, OldMadras Road, 4.30 pm.

Unveiling of new campus ofKID: CM and medical educa-tion minister S A Ramdas toparticipate, Banquet Hall, Vid-hana Soudha, 5.30 pm.

Bangalore Rural Administra-tion: Santha ShrestaKanakadasa Jayanthi celebra-tions, Minister Bachche Gowdato participate, DC (Rural) officepremises, Podium Bank, VVTowers, Dr Ambedkar Veedhi,4 pm.

Central Ground Water Board:Statelevel painting competi-tion on ‘Conserve Water forthe Future’, Minor IrrigationMinister Govind Karjol to par-ticipate, Karnataka Govern-ment Secretariat Club, CubbonPark, 4 pm.

European Business and Tech-nology Centre: Introductionof innovative clean technologyto the State, Tarun Kapoor,joint secretary, Ministry of Newand Renewable Energy, Gov-ern-ment of India, K M Shiv-akumar, Additional Chief Sec-retary of State to participate,Bangalore Chamber of Indus-try and Commerce, BoardRoom, 1-A, Bharat Apartments,44/1, Fairfield Layout, RaceCourse Road, 2.30 pm.

Indian Medical Association:Talk by Dr S T Yavagal on ‘Pri-mary Prevention of CAD in In-dia’, ‘Victory Over CongenitalHeart Disease’ by Dr Vijay-alakshmi Suresh, IMA, Dr MA Narashimachar Auditorium,MA House AV Rao Road,Chamarajpet, 5.30 pm.

Rotary Club of Bangalore:Talk by Y V S Vinod on ‘Sus-taining Charities beyond a Lifetime’, a case study of TataSons and Gates Foundation,Rotary House of Friendship,No 20, Lavelle Road, 7.15 pm.

Akhila Karnataka MakkalaKoota: Children’s Day cele-bration, Makkala Koota Au-ditorium, Chamarajpet,4.30pm.

Kotekala Academy Trust:Bannada Rajyotsava, KusumaSadana, Banashankari 3rdstage, 5 pm.

Lions Club of BangaloreMaruthi Seva Nagar: 56thKannada Rajyotsava Celebra-tion, CRPF Manoranjan Kaksh,GC-CRPF, Yelahanka, 6 pm.

CulturalGallery Time & Space: Exhi-bition of recent works by EllingReitan, Gallery Time & Space,55 Lavelle Road NationalSchool of Drama RepertoryCompany: ‘Repertory in yourCity’ drama festival, GuruNanak Bhavan, No 6 Miller’sTank Bund Road, VasanthaNagar, 7pm.

Shivapriya School of Dance:

Bharatnatya Rangapraveshaof Kruthi M, Ravindra Kalak-shetra, JC Road, 6.15pm.

INK conference in associationwith TED: Children fromParikrama school and Inven-ture Academy along withemerging artist Shilo Shiv Sule-man will paint a wall at INK,397, 9th main, 1st cross, HALII stage, Indiranagar (nearShristi Jewelers), 4.30 pm.

Kala Nadam: ADA Ranga-mandira, a festival of classicaldance and music featuringperformances by K Murali Mo-han, Priyadarshini Smita Srini-vasan, Tandava, Arif and manymore. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Eating outThe Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet: Turquoise, No 9, 2nd &3rd Floors, Koramangala. Ex-perience the Grand IndianLunch buffet, consisting ofover 35 dishes every weekdaywith around five starters, four

vegetarian gravies, two non-vegetarian gravies, sevendesserts and lots more. noonto 3 p.m.

Lunch Buffet: Applewood,100 Feet Road, Indiranagar.A global and Indian lunchbuffet, which includes soups,starters, main course anddesserts, priced at Rs. 299 plustaxes per head.

Lebanese Food Festival:Mynt, The Taj West End, No25, Race Course Road, presentsthe flavours of Lebanon, cour-tesy of visiting chef SimonChakour. On offer are dishestypical of the region. Till 11:30p.m.

Strawberry Promotion: Sugar& Spice, Vivanta by Taj - MGRoad. A new menu to celebratethe strawberry season. On offerare goodies such as freshstrawberry tuxedoes, artisanchocolates with strawberryfillings and mascarpone andstrawberry cakes. Till 11:30p.m.

The Grand Trunk Road: Lido,Ista Hotel. A trip down theGrand Trunk Road, throughits kitchens. The chefs rustleup specialities from Kabul toKolkata. 7:30 p.m. to 11:30p.m.

Children's Day Dinner Buffet:Grand Mercure, 3rd Block, Ko-ramangala. A special dinnerbuffet, featuring kiddyfavourites, and priced at Rs699 plus taxes per head.

Mediterranean Set Lunch:Fireflies, Walton Road, LavelleRoad, A set lunch consistingsoups, salads, appetisers, maincourse and dessert. The twocourse meal is priced at Rs299, and the three course mealis priced at Rs 399. Till 3 p.m.

Rajasthani Thaat: The RajPavilion, ITC Windsor, GolfCourse Road. A festival fea-turing regional delicacies fromRajasthan. The dinner buffetis priced at Rs 1,350 plus taxes.7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

New Soups and Starters: TheTasty Tangles, UB City, VittalMallya Road introduces newsoups and vegetarian starterson its menu. Guests can expectpicks like Wonton NoodleSoup, Spinach and Sweet CornSoup, and Seafood CilantroBroth, as well as Sweet andSour Crispy Vegetables andSpicy Lemongrass PaneerCakes. Till 11:30 p.m.

Night lifeThai & Mongolian Night: Fu-sion Lounge, 185, Deena Build-ing, Brigade Road, DJs Pareshand Karthik play a set of Thaiand Mongolian tunes to kick-start the week. From 8 p.m.

Lounge Night: Ice, Vivanta byTaj, MG Road, , DJ Vanshi setsthe mood for the night withlounge music. From 8 p.m.

Monday Blues: Indi, GarudaMall, Magrath Road. DJ Nayanspinning commercial and Bol-

lywood. 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

House Night: Hypnos, GemPlaza, Infantry Road, DJ Sidspinning House and Hip Hopat Hypnos. 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m.

Minimal Monday: Pebble, No3 Palace Ground, Ramana Ma-hashi Road, Sadashivanagar.DJ Imdad spinning house andmore. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Chillout Session: XtremeSports Bar, 4th Floor, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar. DJ Cheek-O Dread spins house. 7 p.m.to 11:30 p.m.

Retro Night: The Beach, No1211, 100 Feet Road, Indirana-gar. DJ Deepak spins goldenoldies at The Beach. 8 p.m. to11:30 p.m.

Rock 'n' Retro: Banana BeachBar, No 54 6th Block, CanaraBank Road, KoramangalaRetroand rock tunes with DJ Rajeshthis Monday. 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m.

Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda inaugurates the Parikrma Champions League,under-16 football tournament, in the city today. The winners will lift Equity Cup.

Playing ballGangadhar Pujar

Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda interacts with a child, who was part of a Students’Parliament held at Vidhana Soudha this morning. The event to celebrate the Children’s

Day was organised by the NGO Child Rights Trust.

Want to be a statesman...?

Blast: ATS officer gavemoney to accused

Mumbai: A police constable attachedto Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad(ATS) had sent Rs 3,000 by money orderin 2008 to an approver-turned-hostileaccused, currently lodged in a city jailfor his alleged role in the 2006 Malegaonbomb blasts, an RTI query has revealed.

In response to an RTI query filed byGulzaar Azmi, general secretary (legalcell) of a socio-cultural organisation, ,Jamiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra, it wasfound that Sadashiv Abhimanyu Patil,a constable attached to Nashik unit ofATS, had sent Rs 1,000 thrice to accusedAbrar Ahmed through money order in

August, September and November 2008from his residential address at policeheadquarters in Nashik.

The RTI reply was received from city'sByculla jail on July 5 which gave detailsof money orders the 34-year-old accusedhad received between August 2008 andJune 2011. "The real face of ATS hasbeen uncovered. Then ATS chief KPRaghuvanshi had falsely implicatedAbrar and made him turn an approversaying that they would take care of himand his family and sent him money,"Azmi alleged.

Through Patil, the ATS had sent mon-

ey to Abrar so that he does not turnhostile in future, he claimed.

Abrar's brother and lawyer JalilAhmed said, "Strict action should beinitiated against the constable and high-er officials of ATS for such acts. Notonly they falsely implicated my brotherbut also gave him money to turn ap-prover and implicate others."

Ahmed said he started representinghis brother since March 2009 followingwhich Abrar decided to reveal the factsas to what had happened on the dayand after the blasts. The accused hadturned hostile in April 2009.

"In an affidavit filed before the Bom-bay High Court, Abrar has alleged howthe senior police officials includingRaghuvanshi had visited him in jail onseveral occasions and promised himmoney after he turned approver. Abrar'swife was also given money by the ATSofficials," Ahmed claimed.

Abrar, an inverter dealer, was arrestedon December 16, 2006 and immediatelymade an approver, his lawyer said.

On September 8, 2006, powerfulblasts had occurred near Hamidiamosque in Bada Kabristan area in Male-gaon after Shab-e-Barat prayers, killing

37 people and injuring over 100. The ATS had arrested nine accused

Salman Farsi, Shabir Ahmed, Noorul-huda Doha, Rais Ahmed, MohammedAli, Asif Khan, Javed Sheikh, FaroogueAnsari and Abrar Ahmed.

The accused got bail on November 5as National Investigation Agency (NIA),which took over the probe from CBI,chose not to oppose their plea for liberty.The accused are likely to be releasedfrom the jail in a day or two.

Constable Patil and KP Raghuvanshi,who is now Thane police commissioner,could not be contacted.

HC order exempting Tiwari fromgiving blood sample challenged

New Delhi: Rohit Shekhar, who claims tobe the biological son of veteran Congressleader N D Tiwari, today filed an appeal inthe Delhi High Court challenging its singlejudge order exempting Tiwari from givinghis blood sample for DNA test to decide apaternity suit.

In the appeal against the September 23order, Rohit contended the judge has failedto consider that if 85-year-old Tiwari is notcompelled to submit his blood sample incompliance with the court's earlier order, itwould be difficult for him to get justice.

"The single judge failed to satisfactorilydeal with high-handed and dismissive con-duct of Tiwari," a former chief minister ofUP and Uttarakhand, said 31-year-old Rohit.

Tiwari is also a former governor of AndhraPradesh. "The court also failed to appreciatethat an adverse inference can never havethe same effect as a conclusive scientificdetermination of paternity," he submitted.

Rohit said, "With each passing day, thepossibility of getting justice is fading outon account of the apprehension of a very

critical evidence being lost forever..." A bench headed by Justice S K Kaul,

before which the appeal came up for hearing,transferred the matter to another bench andfixed November 22 as the next date ofhearing.

Justice Gita Mittal had on September 23

ruled, "Tiwari cannot be physically com-pelled or confined for submitting a bloodsample for DNA profiling to implement itsDecember 2010 judgement."

At the same time, the judge also recordedthat his (Tiwari's) persistent refusal canlead to the presumption that he is his father.

Omar wraps upDelhi visit, meets

Army chiefNew Delhi: Wrappingup his "productive"visit to the nationalcapital, Jammu andKashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah had ameeting with Armychief General V KSingh on Tuesdaymorning during whichthe two discussed AF-SPA and security-re-lated issues.

The breakfast meeting withGen Singh was the last among aseries of interactions the ChiefMinister had with central leadersincluding Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh and Congress pres-ident Sonia Gandhi.

Omar has been pitching forpartial withdrawal of the ArmedForces Special Powers Act (AF-SPA) from certain areas in thestate which have witnessed verylittle violence. The Army Chiefhad called on the chief ministerat Jammu and Kashmir Houseon Tuesday morning.

Both sides remained tight-lipped about the meeting, andOmar only tweeted on micro-blogging saying "Off to Jammunow. Last engagement wasbreakfast with the COAS Gen

V.K. Singh. That wrapsup this Delhi visit."

The Army chief hadcalled on Governor NN Vohra on Sundayhere and the two dis-cussed the situation inthe state for nearly anhour.

The Chief Ministerhas been camping inthe national capital forlast two days during

which he met Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, UPA chair-person Sonia Gandhi and Fi-nance Minister Pranab Mukher-jee on Monday.

After the meetings, Omartweeted on the micro-bloggingsite "had a meeting with Soniajithis evening. Overall very pro-ductive day-long consultations."

Omar also met Home MinisterP Chidambaram yesterday morn-ing. The Chief Minister had saidon Tuesday that his main pur-pose of the visit was to arrive ata workable solution.

"Obviously the effort is to nar-row the differences between whatwe could like to see happeningand what the army has so farpublicly stated as comfortableto let it happen," he observed.

Mobile filmsragging at Sainikschool

Ranchi: Unaware that they werebeing filmed, senior students ofa prestigious school in Jharkhandlashed younger children withtheir belts.

The clip — that's more thanthree minutes long — was re-portedly filmed by a student atthe Sainik School in Telaiya andshared with media persons inthe last few days.

The Jharkhand High Court hasasked the school, which is runby the Ministry of Defence, toexplain the incidents by Novem-ber 21.

First, a student is seen hittingyoung children crouched up ina line.

Later, another student uses abelt to strike a student seventimes.

During the clip, references bythose filming the incidents toposting the video on YouTubecan be heard.

No teachers can be seen oncamera.

The state government is also investigating the assault,which reportedly took place a year ago.

The Education Secretary isvisiting the school today; officialsat the school have said they willtake strict action against studentsfound guilty.

Diggy: CAG‑PAC chiefnexus behind 2G report? New Delhi: Congress GeneralSecretary Digvijaya Singh hassparked a controversy as he triedto draw a link between PublicAccounts Committee (PAC) Chair-man Murli Manohan Joshi andCAG Vinod Rai over the 2G finalreport.

Indirectly blaming PAC Chiar-man for the 2G report mess, hesaid that the CAG must answerthe need for Murli Manohar Joshito call CAG office before the re-port was put up to the govern-ment.

"Is it a fact that the ChairmanPAC contacted CAG regarding2G before submission of CAG re-port? It was denied by the CAGbut now documents prove hedid. With new facts coming infew questions arise. Was the fig-ure inflated? Was it made inhaste?? Was it at behest of Chair-man PAC?," Singh said on Twit-ter.

Singh also issued a statementquestioning the credibility of theCAG report.

"I have questioned the credi-bility of the CAG report, whichhas been exposed now that RPSingh who is directly in-chargeof the telecommunication min-istry. He was asked to sign on

the last page without goingthrough the entire report. Whatwas it now? CAG must answerthis," Singh said.

On the controversial report,he said, "What was the need forChairman PAC to call up CAGoffice before the report was putup to the Government? Theseare certain things which needsto be answered."

Earlier, RP Singh, the lead au-ditor of the CAG who investigatedthe scam, on Monday told theJoint PAC that he was forcedinto signing on the inflated lossamount. CNN-IBN has accessedan official CAG letter showingthat the lead author in 2G scamwas indeed under pressure tosign the report.

Internal notes show RP Singhmay have been arm twisted intosigning the report.

Deputy CAG Rekha Guptawrote a note directing RP Singhto put his signatures on the lastpage of the report.

Rekha Gupta said, "RP Singhhas been asked to sign the lastpage, let him read the final re-port, here, if he wants".

RP Singh had written to RekhaGupta that he wasn't giving anymore time to the DoT to respond

to their audit as desired by RekhaGupta.

The big question remains thatwhy was the CAG in a hurry tosubmit the 2G report in Parlia-ment if the DoT was asking formore time to make its case?

RP Singh was certainly at vari-ance with the observations byCAG Vinod Rai and Rekha Gupta.

CNN-IBN had earlier shownhow RP Singh had written toRekha Gupta saying that hiscredibility and integrity was be-ing attacked by her.

According to sources, RPSingh has stuck to his stand. Hehas reportedly said to JPC thathe acted on orders from above.

Singh had given a report ofestimating the loss from sale of2G spectrum at 2001 rates at Rs2,645 crore, but was asked tosign a report with a presumptiveloss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in July.

There have been discrepanciesin the financial estimates of theloss incurred in the 2G case andalso in who took the final callwhile preparing the report.

CAG Vinod Rai will deposebefore the JPC on Tuesday. Raihas been accused of overrulingloss estimates without seekingpermission.

Omar Abdullah

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Teachers conduct census with a housewife in Mysore today.

Census time

Karnataka Housing Cooperative Society president S T Somashekar, Bangalore City Cooperative Society president T R Shivakumar, cooperative societies joint secretary

C S Veeresh take part in the 58th all-India cooperative marketing, processing and con-sumer day celebration in Bangalore today.

Putting heads togehter for co‑op

Members of the Karnataka Dalit Sangarsha Samiti protesting against alleged atrocitiesagainst the community, in Bangalore today.

Atrocities against dalits

Need innovation toaddress poverty: PM

New Delhi: Prime Minister ManmohanSingh today said the country needs cre-ativity and innovation to address theproblems of poverty, health and envi-ronment.

"We have made innovations in areassuch as space technology, atomic energyand automobiles. But innovation in ourcountry has focused mostly on the needsof the rich and not adequately on solvingproblems of the poor. We wish to changethis state of affairs," Singh said while re-leasing a report of the Innovation Councilof India.

Innovation, Singh said, can be "a gamechanger to move from incremental changeto radical change. And therefore, it isour resolve to build an enabling envi-ronment for innovation to flourish."

The country, he added, needs modelsfor innovation to address problems inareas such as poverty alleviation, health,rural communications, agriculture, animalhusbandry, green energy and so on.

Noting that innovation has a criticalrole to play in India's growth and devel-opment, the Prime Minister said, "The

set of challenges that we as a nation faceis not only diverse, but also unique. It isonly through creativity and innovation,by coming up with novel solutions ap-propriate to Indian context, that we canmeet these challenges effectively."

The country, he added, was currentlywitnessing innovation in rights-based

delivery through the Right to Work, Rightto Information and Right to Education,while a Right to Food Security was onthe anvil.

Speaking on the occasion, FinanceMinister Pranab Mukherjee announcedthat the government would provide Rs100 crore for the India Innovation Fund,which would fund low-cost innovation.

India's diversity, Singh said, is an ad-vantage and innovation will happen ifpeople with diverse talent come togetherfor a common endeavour.

Demographically, India is a youthfulnation, the Prime Minister said, adding,"The young are restless, impatient forchange and innovative. We need to fullyexploit these advantages."

Recalling the tradition of innovationin the country, Singh said, "We were thefirst to realise the vision of universitiesat Nalanda and Takhshila. Our freedomstruggle that we won without arms wasa social innovation in peaceful resistance."

Singh also welcomed the initiative ofthe council to set up a "meta-university" —a collaborative platform where a network

of universities would offer students theopportunity to pursue various disciplinesof study.

Pointing out that venture capital fundsdo not cater to solving problems of thepoor, Mukherjee said, "I propose to makean initial contribution of Rs 100 crore tokick start the Indian Innovation Fund.The fund will pioneer low-cost innova-tion."

Innovation, he stressed, could signifi-cantly help in raising productivity of theinformal sector, which suffers from variousproblems.

"Our informal sector, where the majorityof our workforce employed has low pro-ductivity and low-skilled activities.

They could benefit from innovation ifthey would exploit the existing knowledgebase, including product design and con-nectivity with markets," the Finance Min-ister said.

The government has taken various ini-tiatives like tax concessions for encour-aging scientific research, he said, addingthat the first multi-disciplinary meta-uni-versity will be rolled out in 2012.

Oz court to hear Samsung‑Apple case in MarchSydney: An Australian court has agreedto hear in March a case brought bySamsung Electronics to ban sales ofApple Inc's latest iPhone, with salesallowed to continue as normal aheadof the full hearing on alleged patentinfringements.

Samsung has sought to block salesof Apple's latest iPhone 4S, which wenton sale in early October, by filing pre-liminary sales injunction requests infour countries including Australia.

The decision by the court to hold afull hearing in March gives Apple atleast four months to sell the new iPhonein Australia.

Apple stunned Wall Street last monthwith quarterly results that missed ex-pectations for the first time in years ascustomers held off buying iPhones untilthe October launch.

"The case will be fixed for a hearingfor three weeks, commencing in March,2012, with the date to be fixed on Friday,"justice Annabelle Bennett told the Aus-

tralian Federal Court in Sydney on Tues-day. Bennett said sales of the iPhone4S in Australia would be allowed tocontinue in the meantime.

"I stand over the application for aninterlocutory injunction, that will standover to the same date, as that of thedate of the hearing," she added.

Apple and Samsung have been lockedin a legal battle in 10 countries involvingsmartphones and tablet computers asthey jostle for top spot in the fast-growing markets.

Apple is also Samsung's biggest cus-tomer, buying mainly chips and displays.Lawyers for Apple had wanted a hearingfor the case to be held in August nextyear, but Bennett said this was too faraway.

"They are trying to expand the An-droid market. The longer it's left theharder it will be for Samsung," JusticeBennett said.

Samsung uses Google Inc's Androidoperating system in its smart phones.

In October, Samsung filed preliminaryinjunction motions against the latestiPhone in Japan, France and Italy, claim-ing the product infringed its patents.

The case in Australia will centrearound alleged infringement of 3 patentsand more than 25 claims. Samsung'slatest salvo came after the South Koreanelectronics giant suffered a series ofsetbacks in its ongoing legal battleswith the U.S. firm.

Apple has scored preliminary injunc-tions against some Samsung productsin Australia, Germany and the Netherlands, and further seeks to block sales of Samsung models in theUnited States, the key smartphone bat-tleground.

In Australia, Samsung has appealedagainst an Australian court's decisionto grant a preliminary injunction block-ing the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab10.1 tablet, with a full court hearingscheduled for November 25.

Pneumonia kills infantsdue to lack of vaccine

Mumbai: One child below theage of five dies in India everyfour minutes. Most of thesedeaths occur due to preventableillnesses like pneumonia.

The International Access Vac-cine Centre blames India for notintroducing the latest vaccines.But can that alone save nearlyfour lakh children's lives everyyear?

According to the latest reportby the centre based at JohnsHopkins University, as many as3.71 lakh Indian children dieevery year due to pneumonia.

It finds every fourth child,who dies of pneumonia world-wide, is an Indian. The figure isworse than sub Saharan Africa,Pakistan, and even Afghanistan.

Yet, India is among just fourcountries to not introduce thenewest generation of pneumoniavaccines, which protect againstthe 23 most common strains ofthe disease.

Doctors say there are other fo-cus areas.

"Vaccine up to certain extentcan limit the morality and mor-bidity, but definitely control ofenvironmental risk factor is more

important. Basically it is theoverall hygiene, the avoidanceof over crowding and the envi-ronmental risk factors. Thoseare more important rather thengiving the vaccine," said DrMukesh Agarwal, HOD Pediatric,KEM Hospital. There are alsoconcerns over cost, and access.

The International Access Vac-cine Centre says the new vaccinewould help save at least 4 millionchildren across developing coun-tries in the next decade.

However, the vaccine requiresfour booster shots. Altogether,the cost would be Rs 16000.

"It is rather unfair that onlyone percent of population canafford the expensive vaccinesand have access to them andthe people who need them mostdon't have access to them. Sothat's were the fight lies," saidDr Soonu Udani, Pediatrician,Hinduja Hospital.

"Just like they fought for AIDSmedication to be made cheaperand now ART has been madereally cheap for the patients,same things should be done forvaccines," said Dr Udani.

The report also highlights lowrates of breast feeding in Indiaas a key factor for child deaths.

According to the WHO, breastfeeding provides vital immunityand Pneumonia wouldn't takesuch a terrible toll if 70-80 percent of infants were breastfed,as opposed to 46 per cent of in-fants, which is the case in India.

Manmohan Singh

Donʼt write epitaph forKingfisher: Vijay Mallya

Mumbai: The ‘King of GoodTimes’ Vijay Mallya took controlof Kingfisher Airlines’ ‘cockpit’on Tuesday and spelt out theplan to get the airline out of tur-bulence.

Addressing a press conferencehere after two days of delibera-tion by the airlines’ board onthe way forward in view of reportsthat the airline was close to beingshut, Mallya said that the reportsare baseless and advised the me-dia to not write the epitaph ofthe airline.

“To write the epitaph of King-fisher Airlines constantly…It isneither fair nor accurate,” hesaid.

Mallya made it clear that hisKingfisher has never asked for abailout from the government.

“I have not asked the banksor the government for anybailout. I am very grateful to thePrime Minister, who said thatgovernment would have to findsolutions to the problems beingfaced by Kingfisher Airlines.”

“While thanking the PM forhis support, I want to clarify, wehave never done that (ask forbail out) and we will never dothat,’ he said.

Blaming the high taxes beingimposed by state governmentson Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF),he said that today fuel comprisesof as much as 50% of the oper-ating cost of the airline. He point-ed out that while state govern-ments are making windfall prof-its, the airlines are bleeding.

The flamboyant boss of theairline said the only reason theyapproached the banks was toget more working capital giventhe challenging business envi-ronment prevailing today.

“Given the huge increase infuel cost, we have a genuineneed for working capital increase.That is what we asked the bankfor. I want to clarify this oncefor and all we have asked foradditional working capital,” Hesaid.

The clarification is importantas it comes amid reports thatthe bleeding airline is close tobankruptcy and had approachedbanks for recapitalisation.

He also made it clear that thedebt burden on the airline is not“enormous” and that Kingfisheris confident of repaying it backon time, adding that his airlinesnot worse off than other play-ers.

‘Every carrier is losing money,there are systemic issue,” hesaid.

Incidentally, the airline hadreported a loss of over Rs 450crore in Q2 results announcedearlier today.

On the reports that state-owned oil marketing companies(Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleumand Hindustan Petroleum) haverefused any further credit to theairline, Mallya said, “There wasa time in the last 18 monthswhen Kingfisher enjoyed overRs 1000 crores of unsecured cred-it by three oil marketing compa-nies. We have repaid Indian Oiland Bharat Petroleum in full,we don’t owe them a single paisa,as far as HPCL as concerned, ofthe over Rs 600 crores of unse-cured credit it is now down toRs 40 crore.”

Mallya said the “problems”are not always from the airlinesside and that Kingfisher has ap-proached the government for di-rect import of ATF to avoid thehigh tax on it.

On the issue of cancelledflights in the past week, Mallyasaid, “We cancelled flights notbecause we couldn’t afford tofly; even today Kingfisher is fly-ing… the cancelation of 50 oddsflights have been blamed on en-tirely wrong reasons.”

“We may be wrong at timesbut it was a commercially pru-dent decision. We cannot fly onroutes that are heavily loss mak-ing. We are not in the same arenaas the Air India, which perhapshas a national duty to performas government is a stakehold-er.”

“We are accountable to thebanks and shareholders but weare acutely conscious of the needfor connectivity in India andKingfisher has the widest net-work. There are destinations towhich we fly exclusively. Wehaven’t dropped any one of theseroutes because we are consciousof that that irrespective of profitor loss connectivity has to bemaintained.”

On the way forward, Mallya

said that the focus is on ways toincrease the yield.

“We have taken up reconfig-uration of our aircraft which willgive us incremental revenues.We decided to phase out King-fisher Red; unfortunately it wasmisconstrued as to we shuttingdown a part of the airline,” hesaid.

“Our yields in the KingfisherClass were much higher thanwhat we were getting from theno frills calls and we are gettingmore on yield than what we werespending on provinding full serv-ice,” he pointed out.

On the future of civil aviationsector in India, he said, “Yesthere is huge civil aviation growthforecast, ours is vast countryand air connectivity is the onlysolution. Air traffic is not re-stricted to metros anymore, thefuture is bright but you need tolook at which end of the pyramidyou would want to focus on.”

He quipped that there is nowlost model in India as the onlydifferentiator between low costairline and full service airline isonly the frills like onboard meals.

“I will never say low cost forlow fare, only differentiator isthe meal, lounge access and fre-quent flyer programme. Withthis huge capacity at the lowend of the pyramid, there isgoing to be a bloodbath and wedon’t want any of the bloodbath,”he said.

Mallya added that as the econ-omy grows businessmen will flyand Kingfisher would like to fo-cus on that customer.

“That segment is willing topaying extra for the convenience.There are only three full servicecarriers, Kingfisher, Jet and AirIndia…more tempered competi-tion and not the cut throat com-petition that is at the bottomend of the market,” he added.

Tons of tons asIndia put WI on backfoot

Kolkata: India wrapped up adominating first innings with adeclaration at 631/7 in the lastsession of play, and scalped twoWest Indian wickets on Day 2 ofthe second Test here today.

It was an intimidating showby the batsmen who came upwith one partnership after theother, led by centurions RahulDravid (119), MS Dhoni (144) andthe star of Eden Gardens, VVSLaxman (176*).

Kraig Brathwaite of West In-dies was the second wicket togo down as newlywed Ravichan-dran Ashwin opened his accountwith the scorecard reading 30/2after Gambhir completed thecatch.

Replays suggested that thebatsman was unlucky to havebeen given out. However, badlight came to haunt the proceed-ings and the play was called offfor the day.

Before that, Umesh Yadavdrew first blood for India earlyon to put extra pressure on theWest Indies outfit, claiming Adri-an Barath (1). The batsman wasout while playing a back of lengthdelivery that was caught superblyby Virender Sehwag in 2nd slip.

Dhoni slammed a superb hun-dred, his fifth in Tests, to put In-dia in the driver’s seat in a fash-ion that reminded fans of his at-tacking style of cricket. He wasfinally claimed by Kemar Roachin the post tea session at a scoreof 144 runs.

His innings was particularlyattacking, with shots all roundthe wicket. With boundaries andsixes becoming the order of theday, the Indian fans had a lot tocheer about as the strong captainmuscled fear into the opposi-tion.

The partnership between Lax-man and Dhoni took the Indiantotal past the 600-run mark ingood time. West Indies captainDarren Sammy tried everythingin his books to get the hometeam out but to no avail on aplacid track.

Play had resumed after badlight and drizzle forced the um-pires to get the pitch coveredand take an early lunch on Day2 of the second Test. The score-card had read 433/6 at the junc-ture. The long wait meant thatthe batsmen would have to gettheir concentration back rightfrom the scratch while the watermade it tougher for the spinnersto grip the leather. The batsmencame good while the bowlershad a forgettable outing.

Meanwhile, Laxman’s honey-moon with Eden Gardens con-tinued as he slammed anotherclassy century, his 17th in Testcricket, while Dhoni was luckyto have survived twice after beingcaught off no-balls bowled byRoach.

Yuvraj Singh was the onlywicket to fall in the morning ses-sion as he was claimed lbw byWest Indies skipper Darren Sam-my at a score of 25 runs. He waspeppered with short balls andhe struggled to get going.

India had started Day 2 of thesecond Test against West Indieswith the duo of Laxman and Yu-vraj trying to see off the pacersin the morning conditions.

The pair had some work cutout for them, looking to set abig first innings total for theWindies to chase as it would betough so score the same amountof runs batting last on the Edentrack. They were off to the rightstart as Yuvraj started the pro-ceedings with a four.

On the first day, ‘The Wall’had stood tall in the Garden ofEden as the scorecard registered346/5 at stumps. Dravid was athis supreme best as he scoredhis 36th Test century and hisfifth in the calendar year.

His 140-run partnership withLaxman put India in a great po-sition. Laxman, who has a fan-tastic record at the Eden Gardens,averaging over 100 with tenmatches at the venue, was aim-ing for another century on theground as he walked out to baton a hazy morning of Day 2 andhe did that in style.

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Woman who set her ex afire

surrenders Pune: Anushree Kundra, whohad been on the run after al-legedly setting her ex and hisgirlfriend on fire, has surrenderedin a Pune court today.

Juhi Prasad, a young lawyer,died in hospital in October. Be-fore she passed away, she toldher father that she has beenasleep at her flat with NimeshSinha, when Anushree enteredtheir home and poured petrolover them.

The Pune policemen handlingthe case say that Anushree, anIT professional, first had a heatedargument with Nimesh and Juhi,and then left their home. She

returned later and attacked them.Sinha survived his burns.

Anushree had disappeared;her cellphone and email accountswere not in use for the last fewweeks. Then she successfullyapplied for conditional bail onNovember 11 in the Delhi HighCourt. Rupee at 32-month lowMumbai: The rupee fell to itsweakest level in nearly 32 monthstoday.

At 10:10 a.m., the partiallyconvertible rupee was at 50.65/66per dollar, after hitting 50.71, itsweakest since March 31, 2009.

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